[Official Site] REDS BACKING SOCIAL MEDIA BOYCOTT

REDS BACKING SOCIAL MEDIA BOYCOTT
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The Reds are asking all members of the Barnsley football community to unite and support this weekend’s social media boycott.

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A bad move. We're not all vvankers. Why treat us like we are. Again the minority spoil it for the rest of the people.

 

That's kind of the point.
If the minority are ruining it for the majority, its up to the majority to call them out and make it known it won't be stood for.
There's no reason people should be allowed to anonymously abuse people online, and only by taking away revenue from the social media companies will they change their lazy policies.

 

You do realise that this isn’t a Barnsley fc initiative?

It is across the whole of football, and is in part due to the lack of protection the social media sites offer. These clubs and players generate a lot of interest, so no content from them at all for a whole weekend will hit the traffic numbers to the sites massively and so might make them reconsider whether or not they can trace the online trolls.

It also means the trolls don’t have a platform for a weekend.

It is a unified stance, and I back them on it as I’ve no suggestion as to a better idea which is practical.

 

Pardon me. If I'm being naive in understanding. Does that mean avoiding eg. The bbs.

 

Interesting question.
I think the BBS is OK as there are a minimal amount of trolls. TykesTalk is off limits.

 

the hours you waste online, I could have done a 1000 jigsaws

 

If this includes the BBS, then I'm sorry, I'm not going to partake. We already regulate ourselves very well on here. I don't agree with a lot of people who frequent this place on certain subjects, but I'm not the thought police, people are allowed their opinions, even if I disagree with them vociferously on occasion. We should be judged on how we act, not what we think, and the vast majority on here act extremely well almost all the time. If we are judging, I'm worse than most. I will post on the BBS this weekend.

If it's the rest of social media, I'm already ahead of you. I boycott it 365 days every year as it's filled with a foulness I have no intention of ever getting embroiled in, that I rarely if ever see on here.

When people on here say something out of turn it is either said in innocence or because there's genuinely something else going on and it almost always ends in an apology. This site doesn't need silencing, it's a community that works, it needs championing. It needs more diversity, it needs more women, without question, but it'll get there.

 

Personally I (perhaps naively) don’t consider the BBS social media.

 

I did a jigsaw the other day and I was very pleased with myself as I finished it in under a week. It said 5 to 6 years on the box

 

It says Facebook, Instagram and Twitter in the article. No problem in boycotting them, I already boycott Kitebook and Twitter.

 

Eff off you lanky curly haired freak.

 

Easy for me, as I deleted Twitter, Facebook and Instagram accounts a few years ago. Waste of time.

I prefer not to engage with racism and homophobia and I’m also not a fan of being in an echo chamber of my own views, so no need for any of them really.

 

I do online jigsaws, never more than 100 pieces although it’s up to you how many you want to set. Takes 10-15 mins. Brilliant program, no missing pieces

 

Well that all depends on how you use it. I saw something once that was supposed to be for students (although I would never set them this due to obvious safeguarding issues) which said to follow/friend 10 different people who are different to you. That might be from a different cultural background, has a disability, is gay/straight, different political views etc. As I say, I would never set it for students but I thought it was a good idea for myself and whilst I didn’t intentionally set out as such to do it, I have a range of different people on my social media who I think I have become a better person because of.

 

Their is some vile humans out their but a weekend off from social media platforms will not make them go away, they need to be charged, called out, hold them to account, more powers or whatever. We live at times in a awful world

 

The boycott is because the social media companies themselves are vvankers, rather than anybody posting. They can take down anything with copyright implications in minutes, but they don't do anything like enough to stop people being abused on their platforms.

 

I do user twitter or instagram or ticktock.

I do us facebook but like anywhere it has its idiots and preachers and self righteous types.

I do agree that this is a good move.

 

Doesn’t make sense to me this. Punish 95% for the trolling minority who will just ridicule it regardless. Social media should have more stringent checks on sign up and accountability.

 

But how do they simply punish the 5%? They can’t. Even if they block them they just create another account. By doing this, they’re asking social media sites to have responsibility about who creates accounts. It might not achieve anything but it’s certainly a step in the right direction.